JERUSALEM - With the Israeli government opening its doors to attract Asian talent for its research institutes, an Indian university has opened a centre here to facilitate cooperation in wide ranging areas for sustained exchange of expertise.Kerala-based minority institution, Karunya University, has signed multiple Memorandum of Understandings with several leading Israeli academic institutions. The UGC-recognized institution has signed MoUs with the Ben-Gurion University (BGU), Technion of Haifa and Institute of Archaeology of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Last year, Israel announced over 100 post-doctoral fellowships for Indian and Chinese scholars, to attract Asian talent to Israeli research institutions. Indian researchers managed to avail around two-thirds of them, with most of them securing positions at Israel’s world renowned institutions like Weizmann Institute and Technion. Karunya University’s officiating Vice Chancellor and Director of Water Institute Dr. E J James said his university “will attempt to implement some of the successful lessons learnt from the Israeli experiment”. (PTI)